Darknet Mining for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/B6tCaWDM78E89jpyf/darknet-mining-for-proactive-cybersecurity-threat

They are using machine learning to comb the darknets, capturing about 300 threats a week.

About 90% hack application and backdoor recognition, that is for sale, and about 80% hacker forum vulnerability identification.

"These threat warnings include information on newly developed malware and exploits that have not yet been deployed in a cyber-attack"

https://​​arxiv.org/​​abs/​​1607.08583

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Why’d they make this public?

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